Age of Dreams

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Xiao Qi appeared on the third floor of the fairy canteen on time.

Yang Na is still asleep now. According to the usual situation, she will not get up until at least nine o'clock in the morning before washing and eating and going for a walk.

The environment of Green Town is definitely not as good as Yulu Garden, but next to Sichuan University, she simply went for a walk on the tree-lined road of Sichuan University. Although the female bodyguard and Japanese aunt are behind, such beautiful girls often appear on campus. Here, many boys are still eager to move.

Yang Na is more cushy than Huo Zhuzhu. When she encounters a stalker boy, she will scold it mercilessly, so she has only moved here for a month, and she already has a "cold beauty in the iceberg". Of the title.

By about September, Yang Na will return to her villa. At least the villa community over there is much more spacious and comfortable, and the community environment is cleaner.

She stayed with her parents until she had a baby before she moved to a new home in the fourth phase of Yuluyuan.

It has been open for 8 months, not only the villa itself has no taste, but the whole Yulu Garden has no taste of decoration-Yulu Garden is decorated in a unified way, not like other villa communities, and the time of moving in is different. , The decoration time is different, there will be decorations in two or three years.

The Japanese aunts are very dedicated. Although they get used to doing things at 5 o'clock every morning, the hostess does not get up to eat, and they can't eat.

Because of this, Yang Xiaona, who was too lazy to get up until ten o’clock during this period of time, could only get up at nine o’clock, otherwise it would be very embarrassing to watch the Japanese aunts clean up the house and look hungry. of.

Therefore, when Xiao Qi got up. I didn't let the Japanese aunts prepare to eat, anyway, the fairy canteen provides meals 24 hours a day, just go to the company to eat.

With the increase of the business under the fairy company. Fairy Company has more and more employees, and more and more middle and high-level employees can enter the three-story building to eat.

Of course it doesn't mean that others can't come to the third floor. It’s just that everyone’s positions are not equal, and it’s unavoidable to sit next to a group of executives to eat, so it’s better to go downstairs or eat in another canteen dedicated to workers.

What Xiao Qi wanted was simple rice porridge, steamed buns, and eggs. After eating, he carried a pocket to the fairy laboratory building.

Upon entering the first floor of the building, Xiao Qi smelled a smell of instant noodles, and then at least a dozen engineers sat together in twos and threes, smiling and chatting while eating instant noodles.

On the topic of eating instant noodles, the general affairs department and logistics department of the fairy company. I have talked to Sun Manxue, the vice president in charge of the Fairy Lab many times.

Mingming Fairy Canteen has all kinds of delicacies. Why do the engineers here still like instant noodles the most?

Except for the laboratory area, they seem to be able to eat instant noodles no matter where they are. The average consumption of instant noodles a day is more than 10,000 packs. Some foreign engineers are getting so excited. They will eat 5 packs at a time when they work overtime. After getting home, their wives often protested.

This not only gets the taste of instant noodles everywhere, but also makes the chefs of the fairy canteen feel a little frustrated. They feel that their superb cooking skills have lost to instant noodles, which is really a shame.

But Sun Manxue said. This is a kind of enjoyment for science engineers, enjoying the feeling of being able to eat hot food at any time. This feeling has nothing to do with food. It is already a habit in their lives.

No way. In the end, all the engineers could only vote. As a result, more than 90% of the engineers had the right to eat instant noodles in the non-experimental area of ​​the Fairy Lab. It's up to them.

Sun Manxue was already waiting for Xiao Qi downstairs. He accompanied him to a hundreds-square-meter laboratory on the third floor. The two engineers here were already waiting inside.

Naturally, it is impossible for the entire engineering team to meet Xiao Qi, so two directors and deputy directors came to explain in detail. One is Zheng Pingfei, who was dug up from Zeiss in Germany, and the other is Han who was cultivated by Fairy Company. morning.

Han Chen had been in the United States before. Only came back yesterday, and came back with him. This is the protagonist Xiao Qi came to see.

In front of Xiao Qi was a model of a mobile phone.

It is not all right to say that it is a model. Because it is fully usable, but there are still some functions in the test, if it is put on the market, it can only be used as an upgraded version of dreamstars2, which does not reach the level of dreamstars3.

"Yesterday, Xiao Han brought 12 samples of screens back from the United States. We assembled them and tried them. We found that the screens basically met the requirements. Both the hardness and the flexibility are very good! It has withstood normal impacts, such as When it falls to the ground, the screen of the mobile phone will not break." Zheng Pingfei smiled and said, "It's not wasted that we spent a total of 170 million U.S. dollars in research and development expenses!"

"But because of this, our cost is also high." Han Chen continued, "The Corning Eastern company's tempered glass we use is now 25 dollars a piece, but it is the least expensive to replace it with this sapphire tempered glass. It will soar to 10 dollars a piece. Although it has little effect on the overall cost, in general, it is not cost-effective to triple the cost of a single component."

Xiao Qi smiled and nodded.

Compared with the gross profit of a dreamstars close to 400 US dollars, an increase of 75 US dollars is nothing. From the perspective of technical research and development personnel, they have been working hard to continuously design cheaper and more usable parts. It is not blindly using expensive parts to make mobile phones progress.

But for Xiao Qi, it is definitely necessary to replace Corning's tempered glass with sapphire tempered glass.

Corning’s Gorilla Glass has been used now. This tempered glass used on helicopters is not bad in terms of hardness, but it is based on a large overall tempered glass in front of the helicopter. The screen of the mobile phone Because it is small, that is, three to five inches, it is still insufficient in terms of resistance to beating.

This is why even in 2013, whether it is an Apple or Samsung mobile phone, the screen often breaks.

But now the sapphire glass in Xiao Qi's hand is different. It was previously used on the highest-end brand-Vertu. After so many years of use, it has been proven that it is not broken!

Of course, the cost and selling price of Vertu are different. Tens of thousands of copies are commonplace, so they can use sapphire glass.

Xiao Qi has been thinking about constantly letting his mobile phone surpass other mobile phones. On the one hand, he has worked **** the software and internal configuration. On the other hand, it is naturally the use of hardware.

This sapphire glass is one of them.

As early as 2008, after Dreamstars went on the market, Xiao Qi began to look for manufacturers of sapphire glass.

He remembers that there are not many manufacturers that can produce sapphire glass. There are two in the United States, one in France, and one in Germany.

For the sake of convenience, Xiao Qi found an American company called Kohler Optics. Although they also have technical patents for sapphire glass, sapphire glass still lags behind in large-scale commercial use due to cost reasons, so basically they all No production, let alone research and development.

There is no way, Xiao Qi can only cooperate with them and inject capital to conduct research on the use of sapphire glass on mobile phones. A total of twelve technicians have been sent there and an additional 170 million US dollars have been invested. Two years later, the finished product came out.

Because Fairy Company has invested huge research and development expenses, 70% of the technical patents of this sapphire glass now belong to Fairy Company, and only 30% of the patents belong to Kohler Optical Company.

But Kohler Optical Company is very satisfied. If it hadn't signed a contract with Fairy Company from the beginning, they would have already sold this piece of sapphire glass to major mobile phone manufacturers.

Kohler Optical Company did not suffer. Once it can pass the test of Fairy Lab and can be mass-produced, Fairy Company and Kohler Optical Company will jointly establish a production plant in Vietnam to produce the sapphire tempering used by dreamstars. Glass is then divided according to the proportion of technical patents and shares held.

And the Fairy Company agreed to them. After two years, they can pick up orders from other companies, provided that someone is willing to pay such a high cost to order ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but even if there is no other company. For orders, think about the 13 million dreamstars of Fairy Company every month, Kohler Optics feels at ease and positive.

As for why Xiao Qi did not acquire Kohler Optics, the reason is actually very simple, because Fairy Company has basically mastered this technology.

The 12 scientific researchers sent back and forth, they were originally elites in optical glass, and after so many years of hard study and research and development, they have thoroughly understood the patented technology of sapphire glass.

When they come back and are supported by the excellent conditions of the Fairy Lab, they will be able to produce a new generation of sapphire glass by themselves after another year or two of research. Then they can produce it by themselves, so why bother to annex an American company?

Moreover, Kohler Optics has a very large shop, with debts of more than 300 million U.S. dollars in front and back, most of which are not available to the Fairy Company, and they are not specialized at all.

There is still a difference between buying a company and starting a company by yourself. (To be continued.)

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